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This elementary backstroke swim was used in the 1900 and 1908 Olympics. The backcrawl swim supplanted the elementary backstroke swim after 1908 as the competitive back swim and it is now referred to as the backstroke. Another variant is the old style of swimming backstroke, where the arm movement formed a complete circle in a windmill type pattern.
Butterfly to backstroke is a two-hand touch open turn. Once a legal touch has been made, the swimmer may turn in any manner, but the shoulders must be at or past vertical towards the back when the swimmer leaves the wall. Backstroke to breaststroke the swimmer must first touch on their back. Once a legal touch has been made, the swimmer may ...
Each swim includes an eight-minute warm-up of easy swimming (freestyle and backstroke), seven minutes of kicking in the water to get the blood flowing, seven minutes of drills and then the “main ...
Composite stroke is drill stroke within one basic stroke, ins (for example, Front crawl flutter/scissor Dolphin/Dolphin flutter) or between two basic stroke, weens (Over arm 1 Arm Lead Sidestroke to 2 Arms Lead Dolphin). It is a strength and stamina training technique.
The flutter kick in a front crawl. In swimming strokes such as the front crawl or backstroke, the primary purpose of the flutter kick in beginner and intermediate swimmers is not propulsion but keeping the legs up and in the shadow for the upper body and assisting body rotation for arm strokes.
For the backstroke, Graves will lay on the starting block and hold out two gymnastic rings for her to steady herself, because her paralysis causes her feet to slip on the wall leading up to the race.
Ryosuke Irie is credited with having the most graceful and effective backstroke technique in the world. [10] Before, he did a lot of backstroke training with a water bottle on his head (Invented by East Carolina University Swim and Dive, 1990's), to ensure that his head is very steady, and to maintain the smoothness of his stroke. Irie has paid ...
The technique for individual medley events does not differ much from the technique for the separate events for the four strokes. The main difference is the turning technique needed when transitioning from one stroke to the next stroke. Each section has to be completed as described by the stroke rules of this section. The transitions are as follows: